Character driven story revolving around the ugly but quick-witted childhood/bestfriend, dense girl-friend, and debonair airhead. It makes the audience wait for two things to happen: the war, and Roxane learning the truth about Cyrano and Christian. Roxane deserves neither of them. Script is witty, especially between Christian and Cyrano. The songs are solid and memorable … Continue reading Mula Sa Buwan: it knows how to charm and break your heart

Recent Posts: Letters Of Joy

We’ve travelled outside the country many times before, but for this trip, it’s just the two of us. Sister and I booked seat-sale tickets to Taipei last March 2017. Come late April, the Taiwanese government announced they are granting visa free access to Philippine passport holders. They will implement it by June, same month of […]

This last week has been the hardest. Never have I experienced more physical pain or emotional strain. I’ve been in the hospital for nine days now. I have a huge incision that runs across my mid-section. Right now it has infection. They’ve already removed the tumor in my pancreas and, surprise, surprise, the cyst in […]

Diagnosis is now official: pancreatic tumor and ovarian cyst. Doctors wouldn’t know if the tumor is malignant or benign until they get a sample. I flew back to Manila last October sixth. Medical practice in Dubai is not as advance as it is here. I don’t want to be their guinea pig. Plus my parents are […]

I’m a killer. Figured, it was only a tiny mouse, not yet full grown. But it invaded the cupboard where we keep our plates. The ones we use everyday. It started when I saw a shadow moved in my periphery. I was typing on my laptop in the dining table. I snapped my head up […]

Doctors are masters of half-truths. They don’t tell you the whole thing. Their sentences are always careful and calculated. The silence is awkward and deafening when they’re reading your radiology report. I try to judge their honesty and trustworthiness based on their word usage, tone of speech, and the way they treat their nurses. I am most worried for the things they don’t say.